Does anyone know of a "How to" site for recovering gold from CPU chips, circuit boards, ce

Weg

I have a bunch of old circuit boards, CPU chips, and cellphones. Knowing there is a small amount of gold in these I can't get myself to throw them out. Does anyone know of a site that shows how the gold is recovered from these?

Timbuk3

I'll be following your post. I'd also
like to know !!!!

bestmr

I do but it's all in Mandarin

Actually, I'd be curious as well. My dad has a bunch of older circuit boards from the 80's on up that he kept for whatever reason as well as some older Tandy(I think) computers. Now that he's gone, if i can get something out of them vs trashing them, I'm all for it.

Weather11am

I'm pretty sure you can sell them on eBay as well if you don't want to mess with them yourselves. Sorry, this still didn't answer the question at hand.

Staircoins

The first few links here look promising.

bestmr

LOL!!! That totally made me LOL and smile

Twinturbo

I can tell you upfront its a very nasty process that can take months to get sizeable returns.
Its essentially a process involving bunches of acids, bases, solutions etc.
If your not a jeweler or chemist, then this isnt for you.
If you do do it, use an unattached outdoorshed or tent, a breathing mask is recomended, and if acid comes in contact with your skin get medical help immediately.
Ive done it in the past but it took a while to perfect, still do it occassionally for friends etc.
In general cpu boards contain $3-4 worth of recoverable boards.
If you dont live in the third world toilet then I recomend to NOT do this.

scrapman1077

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/

Weg

Thanks for the link scrapman; it looks like I have a lot of reading to do. I'm kind of a do it yourself type of person so learning about recovering PMs from scrap is something I find interesting. Another one I want to check out is thermal Plat or Pall, I'm not sure which it is.

ModernCoin

<< <i>Thanks for the link scrapman; it looks like I have a lot of reading to do. I'm kind of a do it yourself type of person so learning about recovering PMs from scrap is something I find interesting. Another one I want to check out is thermal Plat or Pall, I'm not sure which it is. >>



Without a doubt the goldrefiningforum is the place to learn about this stuff. Youtube actually has a lot of videos on the subject as well. However unless you have access to hundreds, if not thousands of pounds of electronic scrap it's not usually worth doing yourself IMO. I've looked into it before and even though I have a cache of hundreds of pounds of boards in the garage I'm simply going to sell to a wholesaler whenever the time is right. It's just not worth the time, hassle, expense, and danger of refining yourself versus simply selling to a buyer. Like everything else in the scrap world the larger quantity you have the better the buy prices so if space isn't an issue just keep piling the scap up.